The First Mexico-USA Logic Fest brings together logicians of the two countries, Mexico and the United States, and worldwide friends in order to join forces in research by exchanging ideas, creating graduate student exchange networks and otherwise collaborating.

Venue: ITAM, Mexico City (in the historic neighborhood of San Angel).

Program

This first meeting takes place over 4 days, from Wednesday the 10th to Saturday the 13th of January 2018, with a schedule that includes 17 talks. The rest of the time will be devoted to doing mathematics, as well as to discussing how to strengthen the scientific links between Mexico and the United States. On Saturday 13th, after a couple of talks, we will also have a small excursion.

Invited participants/speakers:

Juan Pablo Aguilera

Arthur Apter

David Aspero

Mirna Džamonja

David Fernandez Duque

Fernando Hernandez Hernandez

Michael Hrusak

John Krueger

Christian Rosendal

Grigor Sargsyan

John Steel

Stevo Todorcevic

Victor Torres Perez

Anush Tserunyan

Jouko Väänänen

Andrés Villaveces

Hugh Woodin

Registration

If you want to join us, please contact us at motagaytan@gmail.com
The conference fee is 2000 mexican pesos (approximately 120 usd) per participant. It includes lunch and coffee from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 as well as the social dinner on Friday 12.

We can provide free accommodation (at Hotel El Diplomático or in one of ITAM’s apartments in front of the campus) from Tuesday 9 to Sunday 14 (5 nights) only to those participants giving a talk. If you are not giving a talk (but you want to stay at Hotel El Diplomático), we kindly ask you to do your own arrangements at www.eldiplomatico.com.mx

Infinity: the break in the horizon, the “what cannot be counted”, boundless, bottomless, eternal, illimitable and absolute. The infinite encloses physical space; the infinite holds time within itself.

Already in the classical period, philosophers were undone by Zeno’s paradox, that an arrow shot from its bow will never reach its target because it must pass through every point between bow and target, and there are infinitely many such points. For cosmologists, the urgent question is: Is the universe finite or infinite? Will it last forever? And theologians saw in it an attribute of God, and were even prohibited to talk about it.

For the mathematician the infinite is the oil in the machine. For the mathematician who is a set theorist the infinite is a totality—completed, though in Aristotle’s sense, out of view; while at the same time the infinite is essentially open: open “above”, so numberless; but also open inwardly, in the way it copies itself internally over and over again, prints an image of itself into every one of its proper parts, and reprints, and reprints, and reprints, toward an endlessly fractured and ramified whole.

Critical conceptions of the infinite coming from outside of mathematics may coalesce around the concept of seriality. In The Infinite Line the art historian Briony Fer writes of the various serial strategies available to the artist; how “repetition, splintered into multiple registers, [is] no longer pitched against the aura of a single, unique artwork, so much as against its other selves.”

In this four-day interdisciplinary symposium we juxtapose lectures by set theorists and other mathematicians with those by art historians, architects, artists and philosophers, in an attempt to create a dialogue across cultures.

Some of the mathematical talks will be aimed at a general audience.

The symposium is accompanied by an exhibition of the work of the sculptor Fred Sandback.

The international conference “Set Theory, Model Theory and Applications,” in memory of our late colleague Mati Rubin, will take place at the Eilat Campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) from 22 – 26 April, 2018.

Eilat is Israel’s southernmost city, a popular resort located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Eilat. The following Eilat Official Tourism Site contains a lot of useful information.

The main purpose of the conference is to bring together mathematicians working in the areas of set theory and model theory in which Mati Rubin worked in order to exchange ideas and present results of current research.

The total expected number of participants is 70. The list of confirmed participants may be found in here.

Depending on the number of participants we may have some lectures in parallel.

There is no Conference registration fee.

Accommodation: The Organizing Committee will book the rooms for all participants in the Hotel Adiand will offer special prices in this hotel. Eilat has plenty of hotels and in principal the participants could book a hotel of their choice on their own.

Travel to Eilat: Arkia and Israir are the airlines operating flights from TLV (Ben-Gurion international airport) to Eilat.

We are planning to have Conference Dinner and an excursion for the conference participants and accompanying persons.

Possible financial support depends on the total funds that we shall be able to obtain.

20-24 Nov 2017 Villeurbanne (France)

Description

This week-long event, scheduled between November 20 and November 24, 2017 at the University of Lyon 1, is a combined school and workshop focusing primarily on the rich interactions between ultrafilters, topological dynamics and ergodic theory and applications to Ramsey theory. This event is part of the thematic semester “Graphs, Groups and Dynamics”.

03.09.2017 – 09.09.2017 | Będlewo

Aims and scope:

The purpose of the conference is to bring together well-known specialists and young researchers working in set theory, topology, and their applications in other branches of mathematics, including algebra and functional analysis.

The aim of this programme is to bring together mathematicians and logicians working on/interested in various topics on the border of model theory, topology and set theory. The leading themes are topological dynamics and descriptive set theoretic methods in model theory. Apart from the state of the art lectures by leading experts, two tutorials, each consisting of 3 one-hour talks on the main themes of the meeting, are being planned. The meeting will give opportunity for discussion and collaboration between experts from different but related parts of logic. This may result in the future in discovering new interactions between model theory, topology and set theory.

There is no conference fee. However, all invited speakers and participants must register. Accommodation and food for all participants will be provided by the guest house of Tezpur University. Check in date at the guest house is 6th september, 2017 and check out is 13th september, 2017.

The Asian Logic Conference (ALC) is a major international event in mathematical logic. It features the latest scientific developments in the fields in mathematical logic and its applications, logic in computer science, and philosophical logic. The ALC series also aims to promote mathematical logic in the Asia-Pacific region and to bring logicians together both from within Asia and elsewhere to exchange information and ideas.

From 1981 to 2008, the Asian Logic Conference has been held triennially and rotated among countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The previous meetings took place in Singapore (1981), Bangkok (1984), Beijing (1987), Tokyo (1990), Singapore (1993), Beijing (1996), Hsi-Tou (1999), Chongqing (2002), Novosibirsk (2005), and Kobe (2008). In 2008, the East Asian and Australasian Committees of the Association for Symbolic Logic decided to shorten the three-year cycle to two. The new two-year cycle began with the meeting in Singapore (2009), and subsequent meetings have been held in Wellington (2011), Guangzhou (2013), and Mumbai (2015).

Special Session in ​Set Theory

Important Dates

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May 12, 2017 : Deadline for contributed talk applications.

May 29, 2017 :

Deadline for the payment of reduced registration fee by bank transfer. (After this date, registration fee will no longer be accepted by bank transfer. Only on-site payment (in cash) of standard registration fee will be accepted during the first day of conference.)

Notification of the result of contributed talk applications.

June 30, 2017 (or when there are 120 registered participants before this date) : Registration closes.

A 2-week summer school will take place at UC Irvine from Aug. 14 – 25, 2017. The topic of the school will be classification problems in ergodic theory. Lectures will be given by Peter Burton, Matt Foreman, and Brandon Seward.

The first week will treat positive classification results and associated tools. We will primarily focus on entropy theory, starting with the classical entropy theory for actions of countable amenable groups and ending with the quite recent developments of entropy theory for actions of countable non-amenable groups (in particular sofic groups).

The second week will be concerned with anti-classification results: results showing that classifications are not possible with countable resources. We begin with a review of naive descriptive set theory and then discuss classification in this framework. We proceed to show that the classification problem is not solvable for Z-actions, even of real analytic diffeomorphisms of the torus. Finally, we place the classification problems in the hierarchy of analytic equivalence relations under Borel reducibility.

The deadline for applications is May 15, however late applications will still be considered on a case-by-case basis. Funding is available for US citizens and permanent residents (per grant restrictions). More information can be found here: